Today I recorded a video with Rita Ganong as she described her interactions with a healthcare provider and what proved to be challenging for her. She was referred by a friend to a Physician for a consultation for a procedure she was scheduled for in the near future. She set up her appointed and was advised to arrive 15 minutes early. Upon her arrival to the Physician’s office‚ she went to open the door and the door was locked. She rang the bell and waited 15 minutes. She realized after waiting
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Educating Rita Educating Rita by Willy Russell follows the protagonist‚ Rita’s‚ attempts to break away from her mundane and meaningless working class existence by gaining a University education. Through the help from her reluctant tutor‚ Frank‚ Rita attempts to overcome the social constraints that prevent an individual from transferring between different social classes and solidify her position in the educated middle class. As both Frank and Rita attempt to escape the worlds that they belong to
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As the sun shone through the crack of my window curtain I woke up with blood rushing through my body as today was the day‚ I would begin a new section of my life‚ the journey of high school. Thousands of thoughts were rushing through my mind at 100 kilometres an hour. Will I fit in? Will I make friends? Will I have nice teachers? Will I be bullied? That is when I panicked but my father assured me over breakfast that I would be fine if I followed school rules and acted like a man. Therefore‚ like
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Educating Rita: Important Quotations Below is a selection of some of the best quotations from ‘Educating Rita’. Learn approximately 10 which cover various ideas- i.e. Rita’s struggle‚ Denny‚ Frank’s problems etc. “I’m comin in‚ aren’t I? It’s that stupid bleedin handle on the door. You wanna get it fixed!” – Symbolises Rita’s struggle to enter academic world. "Everything I know--and you must listen to this--is that I know absolutely nothing." "Do you think it’s erotic...Look at those
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growth and development. The film “Educating Rita”‚ by Willy Russel‚ about the transformation of a woman going into the world‚ is great proof for the point of going ‘Into the World’. It is also apparent in the film “Remember the Titans” and through my own personal experience. Individuals moving into the world are bound to come across many obstacles that they overcome to be successful. “I’m coming aren’t I? It’s that stupid bleeding door of yours” complains Rita‚ at the initial stage of going into the
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and reads the inscription aloud; Frank: I’m gonna be dead clever ear and say ‘Education is not the filling of a bucket‚ but the lighting of a fire.’ W B Yeats. You lit my fire Frank. Maybe you’ll understand this now... Rita Frank: W B Yeats‚ Thanks for reminding me Rita ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ springs to mind again! The musings of a middle aged man like myself. I lost the appetite for being a poet long ago and now all I have left is nothing except the acrid taste of whisky in my mouth.
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Prompt #2: Within Rita Dove’s poem “Daystar‚” there is a mother who feels helpless to the limitations of motherhood. In the poem‚ the mother is the poet‚ who describes her experiences of being a stay at home mother. Rita feels as if she has no privacy and her responsibilities as a mother are never ending “she wanted a little room for thinking: but she saw diapers steaming on the line.” Because of this‚ Rita feels as if she is unable to progress in her life “where she was nothing‚ pure nothing‚ in
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English 9 Name: _____________________________ Mrs.Casey Monday‚ October 20th—Friday‚ October 24th Close Reading Practice (Style Analysis) & Review You must complete all parts of this homework packet! There are 4 pages. Part I: Annotating Fiction Annotating fiction means “to add critical or explanatory notes to a text” (Encarta). Specifically‚ it requires you to do the following types of things: Pick out literary techniques used by the author and explain their effect Draw conclusions
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Educating Rita An exploration through a variety of texts that deal with ‘aspects of growing up and transitions into new phrases of an individual’s life’. This question in the HSC is usually a common question that invites the student to apply their text and individual other related material to the question. As such it is much easier to plan‚ organise and prepare a response. Students MUST remember that the question/task will be about ‘Into the World’‚ not Educating Rita! Any response requires
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imitation of inferior people’’. How far do you think that this applies to the character of Rita in the play ‘Educating Rita’? Educating Rita is a play that uses the colloquialism of the main protagonist‚ Rita‚ to create the comedy element for the audience when she is being tutored by Frank‚ an untypical university lecturer who works in the setting of 1980’s northern England. In interpreting the characteristics of Rita‚ it can be identified that comedy is indeed an imitation of inferior people as highlighted
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